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Famous Josh Billings Quotes
“A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.”
“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings [pseud.]: Choice Bits of Fun and Philosophy of the Great Humorist Carefully Collected and Revised
“Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.”
“Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.”